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From YouTube: 2015 Crime Data Press Conference - 1/15/16
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A
Good
afternoon,
everybody,
thank
you.
Thank
you
for
coming
today.
The
purpose
of
this
press
conference
is
to
talk
about
20
kind
of
give
a
recap.
On
2015,
we've
received
a
lot
of
inquiries,
of
course
about.
How
did?
How
did
we
do?
Is
we
round
out
the
Year
2015
started
off
with,
on
the
heels
of
a
2014?
That's
on
your
record
homicide
rates
here
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
so
we're
eager
to
talk
about
kind
of
provide
some
context
and
perspective
on
where
we
are
how
we
did
and
our
plans
for
the
plans
for
the
future.
A
You
know
in
in
summation.
You
know
just
kind
of
all
kind
of
give
you
the
the
overall
2015
our
homicide
rate
was
down
about
twenty
one
percent
over
2014,
which
is
just
fractionally
over
about
eight
percent
over
the
five-year
average,
so
we're
hovering
in
the
vicinity
of
our
five-year
average
for
homicides.
Wow
wow,
that's
progress
over
the
preceding
year.
A
It's
not
something
I'm
happy
about
it's,
not
something
that
we're
celebrating
any
type
of
victory,
but
rather
it's
helpful
to
in
terms
of
providing
a
sense
of
a
sense
of
context
both
with
where
we
were
last
year
and
what's
what's
happening
nationally.
One
of
the
things
and
I'll
show
you
a
graphic
here.
It
will
be
on.
A
The
screens
will
make
these
available
available
to
you
online
here
later
nationally,
cities,
our
size
and
larger,
have
been
seeing
large
to
arch
to
record
increases
in
their
in
their
homicide
rates,
and
so
again,
while
a
twenty
one
percent
decrease
in
homicides
over
last
year
is
nothing
to
celebrate.
It's
simply
a
little
bit
of
progress.
It
is.
It
does
illustrate
for
us
that
there's
some
things
that
are
happening
in
some
of
these
some
of
these
other
cities
that
aren't
happening
here
in
Pittsburgh
all
right,
so
I
hear
you
here.
A
You
can
see
some
comparables
about
20
I,
both
from
20
10
through
14
and
then
the
earlier
five-year
period
as
well
to
provide
some
context
for
you.
On
the
other
hand,
the
bad
news
is
shootings
are
up
within
the
city,
so,
while
our
homicide
rates
are
down,
our
non-fatal
shootings
are
up.
Our
911
calls
for
service
shootings
are
are
up
as
well,
and
so,
while
the
there's
some
progress,
there's
still
a
lot
that
we
need
we
need
and
what
to
work
on
to
be
responsive.
A
Similarly,
aggravated
assaults
with
a
gun
were
up
from
2014
about
23%,
okay,
so
there's
a
lot
of
violence.
There
is
a
problem
and
a
lot
of
the
things
we've
been
putting
in
place
over
this
year,
we're
going
to
need
to
double
down
on
it
in
the
coming
year
in
order
to
get
a
handle
on
this
violence.
So
again,
we've
seen
some
reductions,
but
it's
by
no
means
no
means
time
to
a
celebration.
Now
you
recall,
from
earlier
in
the
year,
I
talked
about
changing
in
alignments
within
the
Police
Bureau
to
improve
our
capacity
to
respond.
A
So
during
the
course
of
this
year,
one
of
the
things
we
did
is
ensure
that
our
homicide
investigators,
our
major
crime
investigators,
are
working
more
collaboratively
with
the
officers
who
work
in
the
zones
who
know
the
players
who
live
in
the
neighborhoods,
who
talked
to
them
every
single
day.
Make
sure
that
our
intelligence
unit
is
working
with
and
is
more
responsive
with
our
homicide,
investigators
and
providing
data
to
our
patrol
officers
working
in
the
area.
A
We
made
a
number
of
realignments
to
our
major
crimes
unit
to
talk
about
how
we
could
improve
the
way
that
we
investigate
these
crimes
is
a
they
occur,
and
here
in
a
moment,
I'm
going
to
buy
commander
Larry
Skirata.
To
talk
about
some
of
those
changes.
I'm
very
excited
about
some
of
the
progress
that
has
been
made
commander.
A
Scott
is
going
to
talk
to
you
about
clearance
rates
and
I,
and
the
way
we've
got
some
data
that
suggests
the
realignment
that
we
put
in
place
is
starting
to
make
a
little
bit
of
a
difference
for
us
now
in
the
coming
in
the
coming
year.
We
can.
We
intend
to
continue
to
move
forward
with
a
collaborative
response.
A
Plan
for
dealing
with
a
violent
crime
will
be
working
very
very
closely
with
the
district
attorney's
office,
with
our
state,
local
and
federal
law
enforcement
partners,
we're
going
to
continue
our
partnership
with
John
Jay
College
and
on
the
other
subject
matter,
experts
on
group,
violence,
intervention
and
we'll
be
working
more
systematically
to
improve
our
capacity
to
partner
with
the
community
to
identify
who
are
those
small
percentage
of
individuals
within
the
community
who
are
really
driving
the
violent
crime.
So
there's
a
lot,
we've
just
barely
begun
to
scratch
the
surface.
A
With
some
of
the
improvements
we
intend
to
put
in
place,
we
intend
to
do
a
lot
more
and
we're
going
to
continue
to
stay
focused
on
this
as
the
number
one
overarching
goal
for
Pittsburgh
Bureau
police
again
in
2016
will
be
to
reduce
violent
crime
and
it's
related
disorder.
So
with
that
I'd
like
to
invite
up
commander
where
your
auditor
talking
a
little
bit
more
detail
about
what
the
homicides
looked
like
here
in
2015,
we.
B
Saw
obviously,
as
the
chief
spoke,
a
marked
decrease
in
homicides,
yet
we
still
saw
an
increase
in
aggravated
assault
on
fatal
shootings,
our
office.
If
you
recall,
we
started
this
press
conference
in
June.
We
did
one
in
September,
it's
all
relative
to
reorganization
and
what
we
intended
to
do
as
far
as
investigative
branch
to
combat
and
deter
some
of
this
crime
and
then,
more
importantly,
what
we
intended
to
do
to
hold
those
accountable
committing
this
violent
crime.
B
So
we
consolidated
in
September,
first
of
2015
and
during
that
consolidation
we
combined
our
and
our
homicide
to
create
what
we
call
violent
crime
in
that
violent
crime
unit.
We
had
24
detectives
that
solely
focused
on
murder
and
that
we
had
another
six
detectives,
they're
focused
on
aggravated
assault
on
fatal
shootings.
B
Now,
when
you
talk
about
reduction
in
crime,
the
the
it's
it's
all-encompassing
and
we
spoke
to
how
we
need
our
investigative
capacity
to
increase,
how
we
needed
community
involvement
and
to
start
creating
those
levels
of
trust
within
our
community,
so
our
citizens
would
start
coming
forward.
Well,
we've
seen
is
from
that
point,
for
we
have
investigated
from
the
November
September.
First
date
we
have
investigated
24
murders.
We
have
cleared
15
of
those
homicides
which
puts
us
at
about
60
2.5%,
comparatively
speaking
to
a
forty-eight
percent
clearance
rate
that
we
had
seen
in
the
past.
B
If
any
organization
or
any
unit
is
judge,
we're
talking
about
double-digit,
increases
relative
to
solving
home
side.
How
do
we
prevent
homicide?
Remove
the
anonymity
of
the
offender?
How
do
you
remove
the
anonymity
of
the
fender
hold
them
accountable
for
their
actions
by
increasing
our
clearance
rate
or
by
increasing
our
and
participation
for
our
communities?
B
The
violent
crime
response
in
our
communities,
with
operations
and
patrol
the
capacity
increased
capacity
in
our
investigative
units
we're
starting
to
see
that
we're
getting
much
more
public
input
following
these
crimes,
we're
getting
much
more
information
from
witnesses
following
these
crimes
and
that's
starting
to
build
that
level
of
trust
and
it's
putting
those
criminals
on
notice
those
individuals
involved
in
violent
behavior.
That
fact
this
is
intolerable.
This
isn't
acceptable
and
you
won't
remain
anonymous.
Our
citizens
are
coming
forward
and
they're
providing
information
that
in
turn
makes
their
neighborhoods
much
safer.
B
The
flight,
where
the
actors
were
hiding
and
that's
information
that
we
in
the
past
may
not
have
been
privileged
to
get
because
people
weren't
very
comfortable
talking
to
the
police.
In
these
instances,
I
believe
our
clearances
are
relevant
to
that
continued
development
of
relationships
and
partnerships
with
our
community,
not
to
mention,
I
feel
I
have
some
of
the
most
skilled
investigators
nationally.
B
I
have
some
of
the
best
hands
down
and
when
they
are
given
the
resources
and
support
from
our
command
staff,
they
excel
as
well,
so
those
collective
parts
and
components
or
why
we
are
able
to
tau
in
almost
twenty
percent
increase
in
solving
homicides,
and
we
look
at
our
efforts
in
the
past.
Believe
me:
they
weren't,
visible
2015.
We
had
an
eighty-eight
percent
conviction
rate
on
murder.
Eighty-Eight
percent
is
a
significant
number,
it's
well
above
the
national
average.
B
It
shows
that
the
cases
that
we
do
solve
that
we're
bringing
thoroughly
investigated
complete
cases
to
to
end
and
prosecution,
and
that
also
goes
into
the
manner
of
how
we
hold
those
people
involved
in
violent
crime
accountable
for
their
actions.
You
know
we're
willing
to
solve
these
cases
and
what
we're
solving
these
cases
we're
not
just
going
to
put
a
number
together
to
get
it
out
of
our
office.
B
We're
gonna
put
it
in
front
of
the
district
attorney
and
their
cooperation
and
therein
level
participation
in
these
investigations
and
all
these
people
accountable,
and
if
we
continue
to
hold
those
with
small
those
small
again
talking
about
about
six
percent
of
the
people.
In
our
communities,
if
we
as
a
collective
hold
them
responsible
for
their
violent
actions-
and
we
show,
as
a
police
organization,
we're
willing
to
pull
them
responsible
and
we
show,
as
a
community
we're
willing
to
hold
them
responsible,
they
can't
hide.
B
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
commander.
Now
our
commitment
continues
to
be
using
research-based
best
practices
to
working
really
closely
with
all
of
our
state.
Local
federal
partners,
as
you
heard,
the
commanders
say,
most
importantly,
working
with
and
developing
the
relationship
with
those
communities
that
we
zoom
that
we
serve
so
that
we
have
the
trust
necessary
for
them
to
want
to
reach
out
to
us
to
work
with
us,
so
I,
I'm,
confident
in
the
year
going
forward.
A
We
have
our
challenges
against
us,
but
again,
as
you
look
at
what
we
have
going
here
in
Pittsburgh,
there's
something
happening
here,
that's
going!
Well,
it's
not
going
well
in
some
of
the
other
cities,
our
size,
I,
don't
know
what
it
is.
If
I
could
find
some
wood,
it
was
real.
I
would
knock
on
it,
but
the
reality
reality
is.
There
are
some
things
that
are
going
going
well
here.
A
So,
oh
in
my
formal
comments
at
this
point,
I'd
like
to
turn
it
over
to
mayor
Peduto
for
some
closing
comments
and
then
we'll
all
be
available
to
answer
questions
you
might
have.
C
So
in
2014
we
hired
a
new
police
chief
by
the
end
of
the
year,
we
had
a
new
command
staff
in
2015.
They
began
to
put
together
the
changes
to
how
we
investigate
violent
crime
and
those
changes
came
from
the
rank
and
file
through
the
command
staff
to
find
the
best
practices
that
would
work
in
Pittsburgh,
we
adapted
and
adopted
two
models
of
policing,
one
a
community-based
model
which
is
based
on
not
finding
the
one
bad
guy
at
the
99
good
guys
within
each
community
into
data
analytics.
C
In
order
to
give
our
detectives
the
resources
they
need,
by
combining
it
with
information
to
be
able
to
break
up
networks
and
to
find
commonality
to
be
able
to
solve
crime
and
in
2015,
unlike
almost
every
other
city,
our
size,
we
saw
a
reduction
in
the
number
of
homicides.
This
is
a
testament
to
the
command
staff
that
has
been
assembled
into
the
men
and
women
of
the
Pittsburgh
Bureau
of
police
who
have
taken
on
these
reforms
as
a
part
of
building
the
best
Police
Bureau
in
the
country.
C
This
is
something
that
all
pittsburghers
should
take
pride
in
that
our
work
is
far
from
finished.
It's
only
actually
at
the
beginning,
with
a
new
public
safety
director
who
is
committed
to
furthering
our
operations,
to
build
out
community
partnerships
and
with
a
commitment
coming
from
this
administration
to
see
the
resources
that
will
be
applied
not
only
in
that
endeavor,
but
helping
the
Police
Bureau
to
modernize
its
information
systems.
C
D
D
A
What
you
see
me
looking
for
some
some
notes,
I
have
with
respect
to
age.
I've
got
any
more
here
we
go,
there
was
a
violent
crime
is
impacting
on
young
people,
and
it's
not
just
impacting
on
young
people
were
engaged
in
the
criminal
lifestyle.
It's
completely
innocent
bystanders,
and
this
is
this
is
why
it
is
such
a
social
such
a
priority
for
everyone
with
within
the
community.
A
We
do
see
a
modest
uptick
in
the
age
of
homicides
in
2015
over
previous
years,
so
the
hamat
average
homicide
age
for
victims
from
2010
through
2014
was
31
years
of
age,
where
the
average
in
2015
was
26.
So
we
do
have
some
of
these
very,
very
young
victims
as
curve
breakers.
If
you,
if
you
will
so,
we
do
see
a
trend
beginning
to
emerge,
we
don't
know
if
this
is
a
long-term
trend
or
a
statistical
anomaly
because
of
some
curve
breakers.
We're
gonna
be
watching
this
extremely
extremely
carefully.
A
So
this
the
fact
that
it
is
impacting
on
innocent
young
people
completely
unassociated
to
the
violent
lifestyle,
I
think
maybe
one
of
those
unifying
variables
that
will
help
us
bring
the
community
members
police
officers
work
in
the
neighborhood
and
my
detectives
all
together,
because
we
all
agree.
This
is
completely
unacceptable.
So,
yes,
it's
something
we're
gonna,
be
monitoring
very,
very
carefully.
Please.
A
Absolutely
absolutely
there
were
there
no
significant
change.
I
will
post
up
more
data
on
the
on
the
website
relative
to
raise
the
statistics,
and
the
distribution
looks
about
the
same,
almost
identical
as
a
matter
of
fact
over.
Eighty
percent
of
our
homicide
victims
are
black
/
87
on,
and
the
vast
vast
vast
majority
of
them
are,
of
course,
mail
and
the
vast
majority
of
them
are
young
between
14
and
27
28
years
of
age.
This
is
a
trend.
That's
been
going
on
for
a
number
of
years
here.
A
The
race
of
our
actors
or
suspects
when
known,
is
a
similar
demographic
and
I.
So
the
as
you
looked,
I
have
the
as
you
look
at
the
neighborhoods
that
are
being
adversely
impacted.
We
have
a
disparate
impact
on
victimization.
Okay,
not
all
everyone
in
Pittsburgh
enjoys
the
same
quality
of
life
and
there's
a
victim
ology
happening
here.
That's
completely
unacceptable,
and
so
one
of
the
things
that
I
do
see
going
well
here
is
a
recognition
that
we,
the
african-american
community
working
with
police,
have
to
work
together,
because
this
is
really
about
a
disparate
impact.
A
Know
you
one
would
think,
logically,
that
there
would
be
a
correlation
between
your
homicide
rates
and
you're
shooting
rates,
but
these
two
variables
seem
to
be
varying
on
an
independent
access,
and
we
don't
quite
understand
this.
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
hope
to
get
out
of
strong
data
analytics
and
strong
partnerships
with
our
academic
community
start
to
get
our
head
around.
So,
if
correlations
between
shootings,
if
shootings
aren't
the
thing,
that's
going
to
tell
you
what
your
homicide
rates
going
to
look
like.
What
does
that
look
like
you
know?
What
is
that
variable?
A
That's
driving
this,
so
we're
going
to
continue
we're
going
to
we're
building
our
analytic
capacity.
We
fired
a
crime
analysis
manager,
a
supervisor
to
civilian
crime,
analysts
to
supplement
the
analytics.
We
already
have
we
partner
with
Allegheny
County,
Human,
Services
and
they're,
assisting
with
some
of
our
analytics,
as
well
as
we're
trying
to
get
our
head
around
this
phenomenon.
Why
is
this
happening
and
I,
so
it
be
responsible
for
me
to
speculate,
but
but
it's
one
of
those
things
that
it
would
certainly
be
interesting
to
discover
what
is
the
connecting
variable?
That's
causing
these?
E
A
We
try
to
be
extremely
accurate,
so
we
pull,
we
pull
the
numbers
and
then
we
compare
the
numbers
as
counted
by
our
major
crime
unit.
Then
we
cross-referenced
look
at
our
crime
analysis,
you
and
say
what
did
you?
What
did
you
come
up
with
and
it's
far
more
complex
than
it
sounds,
and
so
even
even
these
numbers
as
we
look
before
we
finalize
those
we
go
back,
we
reread
through
reports.
We
double-check
the
reporting
criteria
before
we
report
our
final
numbers,
so
there's
as
much
art
as
science,
it
in
the
development
of
these
statistics.
A
So
what
we
share
is
always
what
we
know
at
the
time
with
the
best
information
we
have
available
and
we
continue
to
dig
to
make
sure
we
try
to
get
it
right
and
we
posted
on
the
web.
So
there's
a
measure
of
transparency.
So
if
we
recognize
that
we
counted
wrong,
we
explain
why
and
we'll
post
the
right
number.
D
A
You
know
the
citizens
are
not
incorrect
and
your
professor
Nagin
from
CMU
publish
published
a
report
for
which
you
want
to
Stockholm
price
and
the
Pulitzer
pulitzer
prize.
If
you
will
for
criminal
justice,
and
he
co-wrote
found
that
the
strongest
correlation
was
the
visible
presence
of
police
in
the
direction
reduction
of
crimes
rather
than
lengths
of
sentences
or
arrest
rates,
and
so
is
that
important?
Yes,
it
is
I.
Do
these
neighborhoods
deserve
and
need
more
police
presence?
Yes,
they
do.
Is
it
realistic
to
think
we'll
have
those
numbers
to
provide
to
them
yet
this
year?
A
No,
it's
not
because
there's
there's
not
because
of
we're
not
doing
everything.
We
can
simply
the
lag
time
in
hiring.
So
we
have
pulled
out
all
the
stops
this
year
to
try
to
be
able
to
hire
as
many
police
officers
as
humanly
possible.
So
we
are
presently
in
a
hirings
hiring
cycle.
We
are
going
to
be
hiring
a
class
and
it
will
be
as
large
of
classes.
We
can
train
in
March
we're
going
to
run
another
one
in
the
early
fall
and
we're
going
to
start
another
one
in
the
late
fall
early
winter.
A
We're
presently
looking
to
try
to
find
a
training
facility
large
enough
to
allow
us
to
to
accommodate
the
training
needs
of
these
larger
class
and
to
be
able
to
ideally
at
some
point,
be
able
to
train
to
classes
at
the
same
time,
which
is
what
larger
municipalities
do.
So
this
is
an
all-hands-on-deck
priority
for
us
as
a
city
to
make
sure
we
get
our
strength
up
to
where
we
need
to
be
a
be
in
order
to
be
able
to
provide
that
visible
presence.
But
in
this
coming
year
we
are
going
to
be
tight.
A
D
A
D
D
A
C
A
Yes
to
say
thank
you
two
things,
one,
the
data
that
we're
looking
at.
We
will
post
up
on
the
on
the
web.
For
you
to
look
at
too.
Don't
forget.
We
have
a
visualization
where,
each
month
we
try
to
update
the
preceding
months,
so
I
would
expect
by
the
end
of
this
month
you
will
be
able
to
look
on
our
website
and
see
a
complete,
violent
crime
analysis
and
it
will
be
searchable
by
a
neighborhood
by
crime
type
but
and
those
types
of
things.